polar body
Noun
Meaning
a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded
Source: WordNetSynonyms
polocyte
cold person
frozen body
extreme body
northern group
cold body
different body
ice-cold body
polar creature
opposing body
polar cell
pole body
southern denomination
Hypernyms
Examples
Since the first polar body normally disintegrates rather than dividing again, meiosis in female mammals results in three products, the oocyte and two polar bodies.
The first division produces a daughter cell that will undergo a second division, and a much smaller "polar body" that is extruded from the surface of the cell and does not divide further.